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For Lovers and PRomoreErRs of 
Meet URAL HISTORY, 
In what manner Specimens of all Kinds may be 
collected, preserved, and transported to distant 
Countries. 
1p LL Quadrupeds of a great bulk must be skinned 
as soon as possible after death; the tail, claws, 
teeth, horns, ears, bristles on the nose and chin, 
are carefully to be preserved; the hair of the fur as little 
stained with blood as possible; the opening is to be as 
small as it can conveniently be without hindering the ope- 
ration; the inside of the skin may then be washed or 
brushed over with a liquor, made of an ounce of Sal Ammo- 
niac, dissolved in a quart of water, in which afterwards two 
ounces of corrosive sublimate Mercury must be put: or 
four ounces of Arsenic may be boiled in two quarts, or 
two quarts and a half of water, till all or the greater part 
of it be dissolved, and the liquor may serve for the same 
purpose to wash the inside of the skin: then the whole 
cavity must be stuffed with oakhum or tow, likewise im- 
bibed with the above liquor, afterwards dried and mixed 
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